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The Fable of the Statesman Who Didn’t Make Good
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Richard Foster Baker

Cast: Harry Dunkinson [the statesman], Frankie Raymond (Frances Raymond) [the statesman’s wife]

Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by [?] The General Film Company, Incorporated, or V-L-S-E, Incorporated? / From a screen story by George Ade. / Released 6 October 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Once there was a bluff whose long suit was glittering generalities. He hated work, but could be heard a mile, so he became a statesman. About to be shown up by an investigating committee, he made a speech about “Our Heroic Dead on a Hundred Battlefields.” It was simply impossible for such a thunderous patriot to be a crook. In due time he married a widow, and ten days later our statesman came home much saturated one 4 a.m. in a deep-sea-going hack. In the morning, wife had statesman upon the carpet. “Madam,” said he, “during a long career as a servant of the peepul-” “Nix, nix!” said the wife, “let go the flying rings and get back to earth!” “From the rock-bound hills of Maine to the Everglades-” he began. “Forget the Everglades,” interrupted the wife. “To adjust yourself with wifey you must come down to cases!” So he went out and bought a $22 hat to square himself. Moral: Some women should be given the right to vote.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 29 October 2022.

References: Tarbox-Lost p. 237 : Website-IMDb.

 
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